Cyberscape: Hunkered down, at home or work

By Trudi Shaffer

Updated
11:06 am EST, Thursday, February 6, 2014

It's a winter wonderland out there, after a storm dropped nearly 10 inches of snow on the Capital Region on Wednesday. Most schools were closed, drivers were urged to stay off the roads, and Interstate 84 was closed between Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

We asked readers of the Times Union's Facebook page how they spent the snowy day.

Whatever you were doing on Wednesday, we hope you were able to stay safe, warm and dry. Is it almost spring yet?

Best of our blogs

The Times Union's blog portal includes community and independent bloggers and writers. Every Thursday, Chuck Miller showcases some of their articles. Here's a sampling:

• In Ken Screven's blog: "While cruising the Internet Sunday afternoon I was stunned, as everyone else was, to learn that Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman had been discovered dead of an apparent heroin overdose ... This all dredged up a personal memory of where a heroin death actually crossed my path in Albany."

• In Zan Strumfeld's "The Zan Blog": "I partially feel like the person I'm becoming – this traveling, wandering ex-pat-ish – isn't me ... But maybe this side of me I'm beginning to question is just something that has been begging to be released ... Plus, being scared is all the more reason to continue on this quest."

• In Don Rittner's blog: "The last half of the 20th century and the first decade of this one have had deadly consequences on the historical and archeological resources of the city of Albany. During that time, the city has virtually wiped out its standing Dutch history and likewise has destroyed several key archeological sites in downtown."